Phil in SF quoted Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for …
So here we have someone who has never on a subcommittee, or robbed a bank, or even fiddled his taxes, but the algorithm looked into his data footprint and electronic pareidolia did the rest.
— Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (68%)
New vocabulary: pareidolia
The perception of apparently significant patterns are recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines.
This is the second use in this book of this new word for me. I love this word, because people are pattern making animals. so much so that we'll gladly make false patterns.